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La Gioconda (opera)
La Gioconda | |
Opera by Amilcare Ponchielli | |
Cover of the original 1876 libretto
Librettist | Arrigo Boito |
Language | Italian |
Premiere | 8 April 1876 Teatro all Scala, Milan |
La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835. (This is the same source as Gaetano Rossi had used for his libretto for Mercadante's Il giuramento in 1837).
First performed in 1876, La Gioconda was a major success for Ponchielli, as well as the most successful new Italian opera between Verdi's Aida (1871) and Otello (1887). It is also a famous example of the Italian genre of Grande opera, the equivalent of French Grand-Opéra.
Ponchielli revised the work several times; the version that is played today was first given in 1880. There are several complete recordings of the opera, and it is regularly performed, especially in Italy. It is one of only a few operas that features a principal role for each of the six major voice types.
Performance history[edit]
La Gioconda was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 8 April 1876. It was especially successful in its third and final version first seen at the same theatre on 28 March 1880. The opera had its American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on 20 December 1883.
Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 8 April 1876 (Conductor: Franco Faccio) |
Gioconda, a singer | soprano | Maddalena Mariani Masi |
Laura Adorno, a Genoese lady | mezzo-soprano | Marietta Biancolini Rodriguez |
La Cieca, Gioconda's mother | contralto | Eufemia Barlani Dini |
Enzo Grimaldo, a Genoese prince, disguised as a Dalmatian seaman | tenor | Julián Gayarre |
Barnaba, spy of the Inquisition | baritone | Gottardo Aldighieri |
Alvise Badoero, one of the leaders of the Inquisition, Laura's husband | bass | Ormondo Maini |
Zuàne, a boatman competing in the regatta | bass | Giovanni Battista Cornago |
Isèpo, a scribe | tenor | Amedeo Grazzi |
A singer | bass | Giovanni Battista Cornago |
A pilot | bass | Giovanni Battista Cornago |
Chorus: Workers, senators, priests, nobles, sailors, children |
The opera's title translates as The Happy Woman, but is usually given in English as The Ballad Singer. However, as this fails to convey the irony inherent in the original, the Italian is usually used. Each act of La Gioconda has a title.
- Place: Venice
- Time: 17th century
The story revolves around a woman, Gioconda, who so loves her mother that when Laura, her rival in love for the heart of Enzo, saves her mother's life, Gioconda puts aside her own romantic love to repay her. The villain Barnaba tries to seduce Gioconda, but she prefers death.
Act 1 The Lion's Mouth[edit]
The courtyard of the Doge's Palace
During Carnival celebrations before Lent, while everyone else is preoccupied with a regatta, Barnaba, a state spy, lustfully watches La Gioconda as she leads her blind mother, La Cieca, across the Square. When his amorous advances are firmly rejected, he exacts his revenge by denouncing the old lady as a witch whose evil powers influenced the outcome of the gondola race. It is only the intervention of a young sea captain that keeps the angry mob at bay.
Calm is restored at the approach of Alvise Badoero, a member of the Venetian Inquisition, and his wife, Laura. Laura places La Cieca under her personal protection, and in gratitude the old woman presents her with her most treasured possession, a rosary. The sharp-eyed Barnaba notices furtive behaviour between Laura and the sea captain indicating a secret relationship. Recalling that Laura was engaged to the now banished nobleman Enzo Grimaldo before her forced marriage to Alvise, Barnaba realises that the sea captain is Enzo in disguise.
Barnaba confronts Enzo, who admits his purpose in returning to Venice is to take Laura and begin a new life elsewhere. Barnaba knows that Gioconda is also infatuated with Enzo and he sees an opportunity to improve his chances with her by assisting Enzo with his plan of elopement.
When Enzo has gone Barnaba dictates a letter to Alvise revealing his wife's infidelity and the lovers' plan of escape. He is unaware that he has been overheard by Gioconda. The act ends with Barnaba dropping the letter into the Lion's Mouth, where all secret information for the Inquisition is posted, while Gioconda laments Enzo's perceived treachery, and the crowd returns to its festivities.
Act 2 The Rosary[edit]
The deck of Enzo's ship
Enzo waits for Barnaba to row Laura out from the city to his vessel. Their joyful reunion is overshadowed by Laura's fears as she does not trust Barnaba. Gradually Enzo is able to reassure her, and he leaves her on deck while he goes to prepare for their departure.
La Gioconda has been following Laura with the intention of exacting revenge from her rival. Alvise and his armed men are also in hot pursuit, but as Gioconda is about to stab Laura she sees her mother's rosary hanging round her neck and has an instant change of heart. She hurries Laura into her boat so that she can evade her pursuers.
Enzo returns to the deck to find that Laura has fled leaving Gioconda triumphant. Furthermore Alvise's men are rapidly approaching. He sets fire to the ship rather than let it fall into the hands of his enemies before diving into the lagoon.
Act 3 The Ca' d'Oro (House of Gold)[edit]
Alvise's palace
Laura has been captured, and her vengeful husband insists she must die by poisoning herself (effectively committing suicide and condemning herself to Hell). Once again Gioconda has followed and has found her way into the palace, this time with the intention of saving her rival. Finding Laura alone Gioconda replaces the phial of poison with a powerful drug which creates the appearance of death.
The second scene begins with Alvise welcoming his fellow members of the nobility to the palace; Barnaba and Enzo are amongst those present. Lavish entertainment is provided and the act ends with the famous ballet number Dance of the Hours.
Act 4 The Orfano Canal[edit]
A crumbling ruin on the island of Giudecca
The mood of revelry is shattered as a funeral bell begins to toll and the body of Laura is revealed awaiting burial. A distraught Enzo flings off his disguise and is promptly seized by Alvise's men. In exchange for Enzo's release from prison, La Gioconda has agreed to give herself to Barnaba. When Enzo is brought in, he is initially furious when Gioconda reveals that she has had Laura's body brought from its tomb. He is about to stab her when Laura's voice is heard and Gioconda's part in reuniting the lovers becomes clear. Enzo and Laura make their escape, leaving La Gioconda to face the horrors awaiting her with Barnaba. The gondoliers' voices are heard in the distance telling that there are corpses floating in the city. When Gioconda tries to leave, she is caught by Barnaba. She then pretends to welcome his arrival, but under cover of decking herself in her jewellery, seizes a dagger and stabs herself to death. In frustrated rage Barnaba tries to perpetrate one last act of evil, screaming at the lifeless body "Last night your mother offended me. I drowned her!"
Famous arias and excerpts[edit]
Parodies of the ballet music[edit]
The Dance of the Hours section is considered one of the most popular ballet pieces in history. The ballet was parodied in Walt Disney's classic Fantasia. The segment consists of the whole ballet, but performed comically by animals rather than humans. The dancers of the morning are represented by Madame Upanova and her ostriches. The dancers of the daytime are represented by Hyacinth Hippo and her servants. (For this section the piece is expanded by a modified and reorchestrated repetition of the "morning" music.) The dancers of the evening are represented by Elephanchine and her bubble-blowing elephant troupe. The dancers of the night are represented by Ben Ali Gator and his troop of alligators. All of the dancers rejoice in the great hall for a grand finale, which is so extravagant that the entire palace collapses at the end.
Another famous parody of Dance of the Hours is Allan Sherman's song Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh, describing a miserable time at summer camp. It uses the main theme of the ballet as its melody.
Portions of the ballet were also used by Spike Jones and his City Slickers in their song parodying the Indianapolis 500.
- 1931: Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Alessandro Granda, Gaetano Viviani, Ebe Stignani, Corrado Zambelli – Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Lorenzo Molajoli – (Naxos)
- 1952: Maria Callas, Gianni Poggi, Paolo Silveri, Fedora Barbieri, Giulio Neri – Coro e Orchestra della RAI Torino, Antonino Votto – (Cetra)
- 1957: Zinka Milanov, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Leonard Warren, Rosalind Elias, Plinio Clabassi – Coro e Orchestra de l"Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Fernando Previtali – (RCA Victor, later Decca/London)
- 1957: Anita Cerquetti, Mario Del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini, Giulietta Simionato, Cesare Siepi – Coro e Orchestra della Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gianandrea Gavazzeni – (Decca)
- 1959: Maria Callas, Pier Miranda Ferraro, Piero Cappuccilli, Fiorenza Cossotto, Ivo Vinco – Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Votto – (EMI)
- 1967: Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Robert Merrill, Marilyn Horne, Nicola Ghiuselev – Coro e Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Lamberto Gardelli – (Decca)
- 1980: Montserrat Caballé, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Agnes Baltsa, Nicolai Ghiaurov – London Opera Chorus, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Bartoletti – (Decca)
- 1986: Éva Marton, Giorgio Lamberti, Samuel Ramey, Livia Buday-Batky, Anne Gjevang, Sherrill Milnes – Hungaroton Opera Chorus, Hungarian State Orchestra Giuseppe Patanè – (Hungaroton)
- 2001: Violeta Urmana, Plácido Domingo, Lado Ataneli, Luciana d'Intino, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Elisabetta Fiorillo – Müncher Rundfunkorchester & Chorus Marcello Viotti – (EMI)
- 2005: Andrea Gruber, Marco Berti, Alberto Mastromarino, Carlo Colombara, Ildikó Komlósi, Elisabetta Fiorillo – Orchestra, Coro e Corpo di ballo dell'Arena di Verona, Donato Renzetti – Dynamic
Film or video[edit]
- 1979: Kirk Browning directed a television film with Renata Scotto (La Gioconda) – for which Scotto won an Emmy, Luciano Pavarotti (Enzo Grimaldi), Stefania Toczyska (Laura Adorno), Margarita Lilowa (La Cieca), Norman Mittelmann (Barnaba), and Ferruccio Furlanetto (Alvise Badoero).[2]
- 1986: Hugo Käch directed a television film with Éva Marton (La Gioconda), Plácido Domingo (Enzo Grimaldi), Ludmila Semtschuk (Laura Adorno), Kurt Rydl (Alvise Badoero), Margarita Lilova (La Cieca) and Matteo Manuguerra (Barnaba).[3]
- 1988: Television film made in Barcelona at the Liceu, with Grace Bumbry (La Gioconda), Fiorenza Cossotto (Laura Adorno), Viorica Cortez (La Cieca), Ermanno Mauro (Enzo Grimaldi), Ivo Vinco (Alvise Badoero), Matteo Manuguerra (Barnaba).[4]
- 2005: Live video recording made at the Arena di Verona: Donato Renzetti (conductor) – Pier Luigi Pizzi (stage director)
Cast: Andrea Gruber, Marco Berti, Carlo Colombara, Alberto Mastromarino, Ildikó Komlósi, Elisabetta Fiorillo – Dynamic DVD Cat.33500
Adaptations in other media[edit]
- La gioconda (US title: The Fighting Prince): Directed by Giacinto Solito with Alba Arnova (La Gioconda), Paolo Carlini (Enzo Grimaldi), Virginia Loy (Laura Adorno), Peter Trent (Alvise Badoero), Vittorio Vaser (Barnaba), Gino Scotti (Jacopo) and Giuseppe Campora, Attilio Dottesio, Ina La Yana and Vira Silenti (Italy, 1953, b/w).[5]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Recordings of La Gioconda on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
- ^ La Gioconda (1979) at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ La Gioconda (1986) at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ La Gioconda (1988) at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ La Gioconda (1953) at the Internet Movie Database (aka: The Fighting Prince)
- Full libretto of La Gioconda on impresario.ch, 2005 (In English) Retrieved 10 July 2011
- Lascelles, George and Antony Peattie (Eds.), The New Kobbe's Opera Book London: Ebury Press, 1997. ISBN 0-09-181410-3
- Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. ISBN 0-14-029312-4
- Sadie, Stanley (Ed.), The New Grove Book of Operas, London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 1996. ISBN 0-333-65107-3
External links[edit]
- Profile of La Gioconda on oldandsold.com Retrieved 28 November 2009

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The Doomsday Zone is the eighth and final Zone of Sonic & Knuckles (and the fourteenth and final Zone of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles). Under normal circumstances, this Zone is only playable by Sonic, but it is playable with Tails or Knuckles from Sound Test if Debug Mode is enabled. Sonic must have all seven of the Chaos Emeralds to play the Zone as Super Sonic, and can also play as Hyper Sonic (Sonic 3 & Knuckles only) if all Super Emeralds were obtained.
The Death Egg has once again crumbled from the loss of its main mech, but the Master Emerald is still in space. Now, as only Sonic and Dr. Robotnik remain, Sonic must summon the power of the Chaos Emeralds to chase Robotnik in a race against time. Sonic has 50 Rings at the beginning and instantly transforms into Super Sonic or Hyper Sonic (the latter's case is if all the Super Emeralds are acquired). Since Sonic is in Super (or Hyper) Form, his rings are steadily depleted and he must keep picking up rings to help last him through the fight. He must also keep dodging asteroids which slow him down if hit and missiles which render him unable to move or grab Rings for a second. Although only a few hits are unlikely to jeopardize the player's chance of success, even a slight lack of concentration can cause Sonic to sustain many hits and push him dangerously far behind. The , , or buttons will make Sonic fly faster in any direction. If Sonic's rings are completely depleted, he loses his Super form, falls and immediately dies.
There is a section of the first part of this level that has Sonic dodging missiles in a slalom sort of fashion, and Sonic must stay between pairs of missiles as they move up and down. Rings usually occur in groups of 3 or 6, buying Sonic that many seconds if all are collected, although there are patches of 8 or 12 at the top and the bottom of the level. It is still possible to earn an extra life by having 100 Rings, but it is very difficult to achieve this. 80 is a good amount to have in hand when confronting the escaping mech.
The ship is heavily armored enough that Sonic can't directly damage it. It has a launcher on the bottom which fires homing rockets at Sonic. It also has a trio of cannons on its side which fires shots at Sonic. Neither of these will cause Sonic harm but will knock him back, hindering his efforts to destroy the ship. To defeat the ship, Sonic must make the homing missiles hit its head and avoid the ammunition it shoots. This must be done quickly as rings cannot be collected during this part of the fight. Once the ship has sustained eight hits of damage, it will fall and explode off-screen, initiating the final phase of the boss.
A giant robot with a jet-pack emerges out of the blue outer shell, clearly carrying the Master Emerald. It resembles the Death Egg Robot in design (possibly rebuilt after its previous destruction), but with a more streamlined appearance and features similar to those of an EggRobo. It releases bombs if approached from above, and small spiny mines if approached from below. Sonic must catch up to it and touch it eight times to destroy it and recover the Master Emerald. This task should be done quickly, as Sonic may have trouble regaining rings faster than he loses them.
What's interesting to note is that, within Hidden Palace Zone (three Zones previously), a mural in the background during the battle between Sonic (and/or Tails) and Knuckles depicts an abstract version of this battle. This mural would make an appearance in the Archie continuity as Sonic and Knuckles are lead through the Hidden Palace Zone.
- This level marks the first time in a recurring succession of Sonic games that the final level uses a Super form setting in a race against time and depleting Rings, only accessible through obtaining all the Emeralds.
- The music in this Zone is also used in Knuckles' version of the Sky Sanctuary Zone during the final battle against Super Mecha Sonic.
- A remix of the music for this Zone was originally supposed to be in the 3DS version of Sonic Generations for the boss fight against Big Arm, but it was later replaced by a remix of the final boss theme of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles.
- In most versions of the game, the music will accelerate in tempo when Sonic runs dangerously short of rings (10 Rings or below), increasing tension in the player and urgency to keep collecting rings. This is similar to the Special Stages after some time has passed. This is missing in Sonic Jam.
- The Doomsday Zone does not appear in either of the two comic book adaptations of Sonic & Knuckles, but Robotnik does pilot the mech in issue 53 of Sonic the Comic.
- After Knuckles finishes this Zone in debug mode, he is seen blue on the Tornado and the original red one would be watching him at the end. He is also seen with two Master Emeralds, one in his hand and one on the back of the tornado.
- The final form of the boss appears in Sonic and the Black Knight in winning fanart.
- A variant of the boss appears as the final boss of Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure in the Chaotic Space Zone.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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Dudley was the center of the group, having arranged and produced material for Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ABC, and Paul McCartney before forming the Art of Noise. The trio signed with Trevor Horn's ZTT label, releasing their first EP, Into Battle With the Art of Noise, in 1983. The following year, the group released the full-length (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise!, which featured the hit single "Close (To the Edit)."
After "Close (To the Edit)," the group parted ways with Horn and ZTT, releasing In Visible Silence in 1986; the album included the U.K. Top Ten hit "Peter Gunn," which featured Duane Eddy on guitar. Re-works of the Art of Noise, an album of remixes and live tracks, was released that same year. In No Sense? Nonsense!, released in 1987, saw the band experimenting with orchestras and choirs, as well as horns and rock bands. The next year, the Art of Noise released a greatest-hits collection, The Best of the Art of Noise, which featured their collaboration with Tom Jones on Prince's "Kiss."
Below the Waste (1990) captured the band experimenting with world music; it received a lukewarm critical and commercial reception. The following year, a low-key remix album directed by Killing Joke's Youth called The Ambient Collection appeared. Later in the year, the Art of Noise broke up. Dudley eventually worked with Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman and Phil Collins. Horn, Dudley, and Morley reunited in 1999 for a new album, The Seduction of Claude Debussy. Kevin Godley and Lol Creme were added to the lineup. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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Title: | Journal of Digital Research & Publishing Semester 1 2009 (7pm class) |
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Keywords: | Online music Digital Communication Digital Media Master of Digital Communication and Culture Web 2.0 Online PR Corporate Wikis Online journalism |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | University of Sydney. Digital Cultures |
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Abstract: | The Journal of Digital Communication and Culture is a publication created by students of ARIN6912 Digital Research and Publishing. This unit of study is part of the Master of Digital Communication and Culture taught by the Digital Cultures Program in the School of Letters, Art, and Media. For more information contact Chris Chesher (email@example.com). CONTENTS (TITLE/AUTHOR): Just zeroes and ones': Nine Inch Nails and the move to online music publishing (Anon) // The evolution of Public Relations in the rhetorical public sphere of Web 2.0 Case study: Edelman PR representing Wal-Mart (Anita Sulentic) // Google Book Search: Digitisation of books as a positive invention (Remi Otani) // The Digital Business Ecosys¬tem and the Corporate Wiki: toward knowledge creation and innovation (Beth Powell) // Web 2.0 Activism and the battle for online space (Harry Mills) // The World Wide Web and the demise of quality journalism (Kyle Anderson) |
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At Compassion, World AIDS Day is a day of gratitude for caring friends like you who have so generously given to ease the suffering, in Jesus' name, of the AIDS-affected children and families we serve together. Thank you for taking to heart the Bible's command in 1 John 3:18 to "not love with words or…
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Hull assistant manager Brian Horton was in buoyant mood after seeing the Tigers claim a shock 2-1 victory over Manchester City at the KC Stadium.
Goals from Jozy Altidore and George Boateng proved enough to secure a first win since November as Hull followed on from their impressive 1-1 draw against Chelsea in midweek.
And Horton, who was in charge of City from 1993 to 95, felt Hull's fast start had set the tone for the victory.
"We got at them, like we did against Chelsea, set a high tempo from the start with the two up front causing problems," he said. "The first half was as well as we've played for a long, long time.
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Besides being vital components in most of our lives, cars can be really awesome creative canvases. Even though not everyone is into all that complicated, fancy shmancy car decor, there's a big chance these weirdly awesome cars could change your mind.
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The epic, the permanent and the embarrassing. Fails are a hilarious reality that luckily give us (the non-failers) endless entertainment. This time, we're rounding up unfortunate sign fails.
Rodney's Atkins' "The Most Hits For The Money Tour" made a stop in Wichita Falls on Saturday, April 6, and Blake was there for a great show!
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Barbie can't help but looking perfect. She's manufactured that way.
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The Wichita Falls Nighthawks were back in town playing the Dallas Trojans, and thousands came out for football action and the chance to meet Joe Montana.
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This National Wetland Plant List represents a national effort led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to. The NWPL (and the information implied by its wetland plant species status ratings) is used extensively in wetland delineation, wetland restoration and research, and the development of compensatory mitigation goals, as well as in providing general botanical information about wetland plants. The NWPL covers all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Caribbean and Pacific islands that are considered to be territories of the U.S. The wetland plant data are organized into ten regions that coincide with Corps wetland delineation regions. To learn more, visit National Wetland Plant List, Version 3.1 (Lichvar, R.W. 2013. The National Wetland Plant List: 2013 wetland ratings. Phytoneuron 2013-49: 1-241.)Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Editor: For the past 26 years, Carroll County Memorial Hospital has offered free prostate screenings for the male population of this area. Physicians, as well as hospital staff and community volunteers have offered their time to provide this important service. This year's screening is from 8 a.m. until noon on Saturday, March 6, in
Wednesday, Feb. 24 Carrollton Rotary Club meets every Wednesday at noon at Butler Park lodge. AA Big Book study groups meets every Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Carrollton Christian Church, 310 Fifth St. Bingo at Post No. 41 of the American Legion in Carrollton, 123 Fifth St. Doors open at 5 p.m. All are welcome. Cartmell Elementary School Site
Editor: My daughter, 12-year-old Sabrina Oliver, a seventh grader at Carroll County Middle School underwent high risk brain surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio on Feb. 9. The surgery started at 7:45 a.m. and ended around 3:50 p.m. Sabrina has weakness in her right side, but her doctors say with rehab and spe
Westside Volunteer Fire Department recently replaced a unit in its fleet as it continues to update its equipment. Chief Clyde Rowlett said the department purchased a 1985 Pierce Arrow fire engine from a dealer out of Indianapolis, Ind., for $16,000 on Feb. 18. It was formerly used by the Washington-Township Fire Department in Indianapolis.
A new program available through Carroll County Memorial Hospital will help area seniors learn how to deal with life's obstacles. The Senior Living Program addresses the needs of "any senior who is having life issues that they are having a difficult time coping with," RN Director Dawn Hoop said. The program serves seniors
Editor: On Feb. 13, Operation Prom Dress hosted the Sweetheart's Silent Auction at Butler Outlet Mall. The turnout was amazing, and we were able to raise more than $500. The Operation Prom Dress staff would like to take this opportunity to thank those who helped make this event a success. First, thank you to the news
While students at Cartmell Elementary School are celebrating the 1960s this week, Kathryn Winn Primary students are celebrating the decade of the 1950s. The special reflections are being held in conjunction with events scheduled at the schools Thursday and Friday. Cartmell students are celebrating the 1960s in anticipation of opening a time
Luck just wasn't on the Lady Panthers' side in their road game against host Walton-Verona Friday night. The two teams were tied 23-23 heading into the fourth quarter, but the Lady Bearcats outscored their opponent 11-6 to win 34-29 on senior night. The low-scoring game was a result of poor shooting, as both teams shot a dismal 22
Floyd's Jewelry, located at 2551 Hwy 227, next door to Kroger, has closed after 23 years and is in the process of liquidating inventory via auction. The auction was held over two days last weekend and will continue this Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 10 a.m. "We just had more (inventory) than we anticipated," store owner
This week's 31st District Tournament in high school boys' basketball could be one of the most wide open in years as the Carroll County Panthers, Owen County Rebels and Henry County Wildcats descend on Warsaw's Gallatin County High School gymnasium tonight and Saturday. Carroll (5-18) faces the host Gallatin County Wildcats


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This other alliance partners consists of:
Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive sums up the goals very well:
Was Google snubbed, or did the decline to participate? It is not known if Google had previously been invited. You would think that Google would have been on the short list of partners. Either they were invited to join and declined, or they weren't invited yet.
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My guess is a huge percentage of authors and publishers will get on the bandwagon. It will take some convincing for them to come along. Change is not an easy thing for anyone!
What I find of interest is how search engines are getting away from indexing websites.
With Google's initiative, and now the Open Content Alliance's Initiative [webmasterworld.com], you will eventually be able to surf the web without ever browsing a website.
Something like this has a greater chance of gathering momentum, and has an interesting potential for changing the information we receive on the internet.
Instead of showing websites, the engines can present truly authoritative information. This can potentially bump up against the traditional webmaster who is creating websites with the aim of selling something along with the information. Search engines can conceivably cut out the middleman (website operators) and show ads on the free information they display.
Otoh, I'm not sure if this will impact the marketer affing hotel rooms to beach resorts.
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It's just common sense.
I've been beating the same drum for Google's "initiative". Google saw the potential of big $$$$$ here first. Arrhhhh, there's nothing like big dough and politics covered up by a "do-good" pretense.
Yet another case of Google finding itself solidifying its position as the new "Microsoft of the Mind", by which I mean, the company that occupies the mindspace of the dominating 500-pound gorilla that everyone loves to hate, but uses anyway.
The Yahoo mention of academic writing reminds me of the campaign launched by Bob Darnton (author of the Great Cat Massacre and president of the American Historical Association circa early 1990s. He felt that the academic publishing model had become economically untenable and that it was imperative to get rid of the stigma to publishing online by have electronic-only versions of peer-reviewed journals and books. He established a fund to award $30,000 (a huge award in a field like history) to one dissertation per year if the author agreed to never publish it in print. It never really took off, but with the academic slant to the Yahoo project, maybe we'll get there eventually.
Will Yahoo be Itunes and Google MP3.com, at least when it comes to the library?
I'll restrain from snorting soda on my screen at the ludicrous assumption that everything in print is "authoritative" - there is just as many crackpots running web sites as there are writing books.
Once you get past the dictionary, all bets are off on authoritative IMO as a lot of information is manipulated as society changes to fit the changing political climate.
If you don't believe this, compare identical topics in a 1930s encyclopedia to the same topics in today's tome and note how many things are dumbed-down for the masses or critical things glossed over that used to appear.
Authoritative - BAH!
That said, there is a difference between a web page that some crackpot puts up by himself and a web page that some crackpot puts up and that has been subjected to peer review by leading experts in the field. Does that difference make the peer-reviewed materials ipso facto true, correct and not subject to revision after another 70 years of research? Of course not. Does it mean that they are unlikely to be schizophrenic rantings of one crackpot? Yes, it does.
In some fields yes, but in others quite the opposite.


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A complete run of a men's fashion magazine from 1911.
March 8, 2013
A playing card cut into three sections and used as scrip to be redeemed for one loaf of bread per section. Issued by the Montreal grocer John Hautson.From the catalog of book dealer Bob Gaba:
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A new acquisition: A game that uses a magnet and a metallic wheel to show a letter that is indexed against sheets of code to predict(?).
Perhaps the title on the box can be translated to provide guidance: Verborgener Gedanken Errathende Machine.
February 19, 2013
A song from 1878 satirizing the women's rights movement.
More information here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/8422
February 15, 2013
A variety of items printed on the in-house presses of St. John the Evangelist church, Limehouse, London.
The church was destroyed on September 19, 1940, near the beginning of the Blitz.
February 4, 2013
Liana Epstein, Yale College Class of 2014
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WASHINGTON DC, APRIL 21, 2009 -- Two science coalitions will honor Representative Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat from New York's 22nd district, for his strong support for a national research portfolio that invests in all the sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Nearly 30 biological and agricultural scientists from universities across the nation will honor his contributions to the nation's research policy at a Capitol Hill reception this evening.
The Biological and Ecological Sciences Coalition (BESC) supports the goal of increasing the nation's investment in the biological sciences across all federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Coalition on Funding Agricultural Research Missions (CoFARM) works to raise awareness and support for federally funded agricultural research, especially research supported through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program.
"As a member of the both the House Agriculture and Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittees, Representative Hinchey both understands the importance of and has been a long-time champion for the agricultural and biological sciences," said CoFARM Co-Chair Karl Glasener who also handles policy for the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.
"Rep. Hinchey has long recognized the key role that all sciences play in addressing society's challenges," added BESC Co-Chair Nadine Lymn, who is also with the Ecological Society of America. "We make the best progress by broadly investing and integrating the results of all fields of science."
"Through his actions, Rep. Hinchey has demonstrated that he understands the best investment for the nation is one that funds all fields of scientific research" said Robert Gropp, who is Co-Chair of BESC and is also with the American Institute of Biolo
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Mohammed Abdul Hai became the country's first century-maker in the earliest avatar of abridged cricket, introduced through the Deodhar Trophy in 1973-74.
"The first doctor to play for India was my dream, but that was not to be," the general physician settled in Michigan sighed wistfully, when reminiscing with The Hindu.
"There was a fairly large turnout at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium for the 1974-75 quarterfinal in Chennai," continued Hai. For taking on North Zone was a star-studded South, led by S. Venkatraghavan.
Legends lined up were M.A.K. Pataudi, G.R. Viswanath, Abid Ali, Jayantilal Kenia and E.A.S. Prasanna, all of them Test players, three of whom were Hai's Hyderabad Ranji teammates.
A consistent scorer in the event's opening edition a year before and having played for Brondesbury CC alongside Mike Gatting in the Middlesex league, Hai felt equipped for the 60-overs-a-side challenge. With one opener gone for no score, the stylish southpaw walked in and began scoring at a brisk pace.
"Raj Singh Dungarpur's eyes widened with amazement at what was then an astonishing rate — four runs an over — as also on South 'amassing' 248 for nine," Hai recalled, his endeavour ending at 101, castled by Madan Lal.
Hai also played in Prof. D.B. Deodhar's benefit match in Pune, the patriarch's hometown.
He was offered an opportunity to play in/for Pakistan by Asif Iqbal, a senior at Hyderabad's Nizam College.
The college's alumni includes two India captains — Ghulam Ahmed and Mohd. Azharuddin — Test players M.L. Jaisimha, Abbas Ali Baig and Jayantilal Kenia besides Habeeb Ahmed, who led the Indian Starlets to the aforementioned nation.
"A decade after the Deodhar Trophy began, India clinched the Prudential World Cup in 1983, thus making the nation a cricket super power," noted Prof. A. Prasanna Kumar, a Fulbright Fellow, sports columnist and author.
"If the sport's reign was divided into eras, the 1970s belonged to Sunil Gavaskar, the '80s to Kapil Dev, the '90s to Sachin Tendulkar and thereon to M.S. Dhoni. Much credit is due to the limited-over version named after the Grand Old Man," added Prasanna Kumar, who was a commentator during Visakhapatnam's first One-Day International between New Zealand and India in 1988.
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While I agree a mouse pad designed for optical mouses (mice are rodents) tend to work great, part of the beauty of opticals is you don't have to worry about pads. So you need to experiment with different surfaces. And yes, a trackball might be your best bet. Some are very big, with the ball the size of a cue ball - some are small. Go to an electronics store and find one that "feels" right to you.
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Inventor | Robin Burgener |
Company | Radica (2004 - 2011) Techno Source (2011-present) |
Country | United States |
Availability | 1988–present |
Materials | Artificial Intelligence |
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20Q is a computerized game of twenty questions that began as a test in artificial intelligence (AI). It was invented by Robin Burgener in 1988.[1] The game was made handheld by Radica in 2004, then it was discontinued in 2011 because Techno Source took the license for 20Q handheld devices.
The game 20Q is based on the spoken parlor game known as twenty questions, and is both a website[2] and a handheld device. 20Q asks the player to think of something and will then try to guess what they are thinking of with twenty yes-or-no questions. If it fails to guess in 20 questions, it will ask an additional 5 questions. If it fails to guess even with 25 (or 30) questions, the player is declared the winner. Sometimes the first guess of the object can be asked at question 14.
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The principle is that the player thinks of something and the 20Q artificial intelligence asks a series of questions before guessing what the player is thinking. This artificial intelligence learns on its own with the information relayed back to the players who interact with it, and is not programmed. The player can answer these questions with: Yes, No, Unknown, and Sometimes. The experiment is based on the classic word game of Twenty Questions, and on the computer game "Animals," popular in the early 1970s, which used a somewhat simpler method to guess an animal.[3]
The 20Q AI uses an artificial neural network to pick the questions and to guess.[1][4] After the player has answered the twenty questions posed (sometimes fewer), 20Q makes a guess. If it is incorrect, it asks more questions, then guesses again. It makes guesses based on what it has learned; it is not programmed with information or what the inventor thinks. Answers to any question are based on players' interpretations of the questions asked. Newer editions were made for different categories, such as music 20Q which has the player think of a song, and Harry Potter 20Q, which has the player think of something from the world of the Harry Potter series.
The 20Q AI can draw its own conclusions on how to interpret the information. It can be described as more of a folk taxonomy than a taxonomy. Its knowledge develops with every game played. In this regard, the online version of the 20Q AI can be inaccurate because it gathers its answers from what people think rather than from what people know. Limitations of taxonomy are often overcome by the AI itself because it can learn and adapt. For example, if the player was thinking of a "Horse" and answered "No" to the question "Is it an animal?," the AI will, nevertheless, guess correctly, despite being told that a horse is not an animal.
Patent applications in the US and Europe were submitted in 2005.[5]
In August of 2014, 20Q.net Inc., with Brashworks Studios, developed and released an iOS iPad version available at the Apple ITunes store.
Handheld device[edit]
The built Artificial Neural Network is not resource intensive either to store or to compute, thus it could be embedded in small, less powerful devices. Currently, there is a handheld version of the AI. The device contains a small portion of the original 20Q website knowledge base; unlike the online versions of the game, the handheld version does not have the ability to learn.
The 20Q artificial intelligence is different from less flexible, and extremely large, expert systems. Its modularity, adaptability, and scalability means that it can be applied to other, more complex devices, for more complex uses.
Game show[edit]
On June 13, 2009, GSN began a TV version of the game, hosted by Cat Deeley, with Hal Sparks as the voice of the computer.
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- ^ with information from: LiCalzi O'Connell, Pamela. "Vegetables And Minerals On The Radar" The New York Times. March 27, 2003; Burgener, Robin, computer architect, inventor.
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Pulmonary artery sarcoma is an uncommon neoplasm, and its clinical and radiological presentation usually simulates chronic thromboembolic disease. We present the case of a 77-year-old woman admitted with dyspnea, chest pain, and hemoptysis. A chest computed tomographic scan showed moderate right-sided pleural effusion and a saccular dilatation of the interlobar portion of the right pulmonary artery, which was filled with contrast and surrounded by an irregular soft-tissue attenuation mass, suggesting a ruptured pulmonary artery aneurysm. The patient was operated on. Intraoperatively, a pseudoaneurysm and a solid mass were identified within the oblique fissure around the interlobar artery. Therefore, a right pneumonectomy was performed. Definitive pathologic examination was consistent with pulmonary artery sarcoma. The patient had a good outcome and is free of disease 2 years after surgery. |
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- fortycal_sig 2012/09/23 21:55:10I did not get a bb gun first I got
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- jubil8 BN-0 PON 2012/09/23 21:48:33I did not get a bb gun first I got+1A Remington .22 rifle for my 9th b'day, along with an NRA membership.
My father had this crazy idea that guns aren't toys; I never owned a cap gun, bb gun or water pistol. And more than one kid had his bb gun or air rifle taken away from him if my father saw (or heard) him shoot at anything. My dad was great! -
- jgh57 2012/09/23 21:36:25
- bye 2012/09/23 21:25:51I did not get a bb gun first I got
- tommyg - POTL- PWCM-JLA 2012/09/23 21:23:38
- Matt 2012/09/23 21:22:48
- Gracie - Proud Conservative 2012/09/23 21:15:58I did not get a bb gun first I gotMy brother got one but I used it as much as he did. He shot me in the hand when I put it over the end of the barrel. I paid him back by sticking a dart in his forehead when he wouldn't move out of the way when I was shooting darts. We both have scars that we inflicted on each other. I used to laugh when my mother lived with us before she died and she'd watch the kids play outside and tell me that they could get hurt and their parents should be watching them!
- Son of Furious 2012/09/23 21:12:57
- Veritas CLM *First Sedition* 2012/09/23 20:57:39
- Sick Boy 2012/09/23 20:48:57
- Culgan 2012/09/23 20:48:01
- Gigglez 2012/09/23 20:45:30
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